Forecasting for policy making in the post-cold war period

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 111-125

  Feder, Stanley A ^a  

^a PolicyFutures   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Political expected utility models; Prediction; Scenario analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036408310     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.5.102601.115116     Document Type: Review

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